The holiday season amplifies America's loneliness epidemic, but simple actions can combat isolation better than medication, ...

The “super flu” behind outbreaks in the US and UK is a new variant of influenza A H3N2, subclade K. Existing vaccines appear to be insufficiently effective against the virus.

Epidemic-causing viruses are linked to a small number of bat families, not bats as a whole, improving outbreak prevention ...

Time indoors looking at screens can cause eyeballs to elongate, leaving kids nearsighted for life.

Former Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy has tackled a range of public health crises including Zika, drug and alcohol addiction and obesity. Now, he's shedding light on a silent crisis: the rising ...

Outbreaks of disease are common, but they can vary drastically in severity. While an outbreak is merely an increase in the number of cases of a disease, an epidemic is when an infectious disease ...

With serious funding, education, expanded treatment options, new legislation, and a governmentally assigned leader, we can ...

People should be encouraged to share tables in cafes with strangers as a way of tackling an "epidemic" of loneliness, a ...